Thursday, December 10, 2015

Isaiah, Chapter 41, verse 13-14:

¹³ For I am the LORD, your God, who grasp your right hand; it is I who say to you, do not fear, I will help you. ¹⁴ Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you maggot Israel; I will help you—oracle of the LORD; the Holy One of Israel is your redeemer.

I picture Christ saying this to Peter in the Sea of Galilee as He pulls Peter up after he walked on the water and feared the waves and began to drown.  We must not waiver when we feel covered over by the waters of fear for He will help us.  When in fear if we cry out for his help He will grab us by the hand and bring us back in to the boat; which is His church.

Let us not be children of fear but children of faith.  In fact the opposite of Faith is fear.  Napoleon Hill author of the bestselling book THINK AND GROW RICH stated in his unpublished manuscript entitled “Outwitting the Devil” that the devil uses fear to manipulate and control us.  Hill uses an imaginary conversation with the devil where the devil states:  Once I capture the mind of a child, through fear, I weaken that child’s ability to reason and to think for himself, and that weakness goes with the child all through life.

According to Hill the secret to freedom and success is to break the chains of fear and realize that failure and defeat are only a temporary experience. 

Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first in inaugural address as President of the United States realizing this stating, “So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”  As a new President he realized the power of fear and he also realized the power of courage. 

Mindful of this let us go forth manfully to face our fears and change ourselves, our families and our nation realizing YES He IS and He grasps our hand—He will help us!  Even in our lowliness.